Substance Misuse Nurse

Substance Misuse Nurse – Ellesmere Port & Chester A new opportunity is available for an experienced Substance Misuse Nurse to work within a community-based drug and alcohol service supporting adults with a range of substance use needs. The role involves delivering high quality clinical interventions, promoting recovery, and ensuring safe, effective healthcare access for service users.

Location Ellesmere Port & Chester

Hours Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm

Contract Length 3 months

Pay Rate £30 per hour (Ltd)

Role Overview Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will provide clinical support to individuals with drug and/or alcohol dependency. Your role will involve delivering evidence?based interventions, supporting harm reduction, working closely with recovery teams, and ensuring safe clinical management throughout a service user’s recovery journey.

You will work across community hubs, engaging with service users, supporting stabilisation, and helping improve physical and mental wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver a wide range of clinical interventions within community based drug and alcohol services
• Improve access to healthcare through:
  • BBV (Blood-Borne Virus) testing and treatment
  • Full health assessments and ongoing reviews
  • Ambulatory detox support
  • Clinical observations and monitoring
• Provide safe, evidence?based nursing care aligned with national guidelines and service policy
• Carry out essential healthcare procedures such as:
  • Wound care
  • ECGs
  • Physical health checks
  • Medication administration and management
• Participate in harm reduction practices such as:
  • Naloxone training and overdose awareness
  • Safer injecting advice
  • Alcohol withdrawal monitoring
• Maintain mandatory competencies including Basic Life Support, anaphylaxis management and responding to medical emergencies
• Work collaboratively with recovery workers, prescribers, keyworkers, and external health services
• Keep accurate clinical records, risk assessments, and documentation
• Support individuals in stabilisation, relapse prevention, and long?term health improvement
• Escalate clinical concerns appropriately and safeguard vulnerable adults where required

Requirements

• Valid nursing qualification and NMC registration (RGN/RMN/RNLD)
• Clinical experience in substance misuse, community mental health, primary care, or a related acute setting
• Confident providing physical healthcare interventions and managing emergencies
• Strong understanding of harm reduction and recovery?focused approaches
• Excellent communication, organisational skills, and ability to work independently within a team
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries and work in a non?judgemental, person?centred way

Interested? Service Care Solutions benefits and interested please send your CV to andrew.wiles@servicecare.org.uk